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Chapter 6 of Trails the 3rd complete! I mean, I all but finished it last night, but it didn't officially end until we stepped through the fog on the Erbe Royal Road into Aster House, which is the orphanage that Kevin, Rufina, and Ries all grew up in. We get to look around and have some fun conversations about their upbringing before Kevin unloads the brutal truth of what happened to Rufina, as well as his own backstory of what happened to him before he came to live with them. I guess that explains where the Spear of Loa came from!

Then the Lord of Nonsense finally unmasks herself as Rufina and applauds Kevin for being able to figure out such a difficult mystery. Look, if I figured it out ahead of time, it wasn't a difficult mystery! Apparently, all this stuff was created out of Kevin's desire to be punished for what he did to Rufina and his mother, and she's happy to oblige, it seems! Ries feels like this is out of character for her, but Kevin doesn't appear to be of the same mind! Perhaps Rufina is not the sweet girl that she appeared to be in all those flashbacks! I guess it's possible for these apparitions to act out of character since we fought a bunch of dudes who would otherwise never fight us (although they never really broke character in the process, so who knows!).

Ries won't allow this to go on, so Rufina decides to punish her in Kevin's place to punish him even further. This punishment game is getting really meta here! She gets cast down into Gehenna and loses her hood in the process, but Kevin dives in after her. Ries tells him that sacrificing himself to save everyone else and punish himself isn't what Rufina would have done. She only sacrificed herself because there was literally no other way to save Kevin and Ries. Kevin decides he's gotta get outta here because his desire for self-punishment is gone now that Ries ended up getting cast into Gehenna because of him. Kevin's journal gets prophetic for a bit because it said he re-killed the first heretic he ever killed, some dude named Owen, and shortly thereafter, we fight him! It even goes into the journal a second time for good measure!

Anyway, I'm guessing we've still got a little ways to go. I've gotta find that last Moon and Star Door, after all! I'm assuming I wasn't supposed to have found them yet anyway, but maybe I did manage to miss them. I've tried to be thorough everywhere I've gone, so I'm not sure where I would've missed them.
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